"Chris, why is your brain turned to mush now?"

"Why so matter-of-fact about everything? Why all the heavy drinking? Why do you rattle around the house and laugh and talk to yourself? Sheesh, it's like your brain has been turned to mush from being in a heightened state of fight-or-flight for five years. Oh, now I know why you deserve your ticket receipts: with legitimacy comes safety. You'd be a professional social commentator! Now I get it! And now I know why you think that every last journalist should be walking the bread line: Because if they don't live each and every day in fear of their very lives, then they're obviously not doing what is known in the industry as 'news!' I'm so glad that you've been doing everyone's job for five years and that your brain is shot because of it. Keep up the good work. We appreciate foresighted individuals like you. Now enjoy your Slim Jim wrapper at supper tonight."

Revelations that a political assassination unit which reported solely to Dick Cheney was in operation during the Bush administration are absent the fact that the unit in question, the Joint Special Operations Command, has been active for decades, has been deployed domestically in the U.S., has killed U.S. citizens, and is an integral part of Barack Obama’s expanded wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell when he told a University of Minnesota audience on Tuesday that the Joint Special Operations Command is, “An executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on,” Hersh stated. “Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us.”

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As we learn from the Global Security website, the Joint Special Operations Command in fact comprises mostly of Delta Force soldiers and SEALs. The unit was established in 1980 and is located at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina and at nearby Fort Bragg.

The assassination unit was not a creation of the Bush administration or Dick Cheney, it has in fact been “involved in a number of covert military operations over the last two decades,” including the covert U.S. invasions of Panama and Granada, as well as search and rescue missions in Somalia, and searching for alleged war criminals in Yugoslavia.

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It was also reported that Delta Force were involved in the largest ever single act of slaughter of civilians by law enforcement in US history - the 1993 siege on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco.

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According to Global Security, Bill Clinton’s 1994 Presidential Decision Directive 25 “exempt(s) the Joint Special Operations Command from the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 18USC Sec.1385, PL86-70, Sec. 17[d]. which makes it illegal for military and law enforcement to exercise jointly.”

The Joint Special Operations Command is a sub-unit of the United States Special Operations Command, which is described at the “Department of Defense’s front man in the global war on terrorism”. A New York Times article from last year reported that the Joint Special Operations Command were conducting ground raids in Pakistan supposedly aimed at hunting “Al-Qaeda members”. Such raids have only increased since Obama came to power.

Once again, the corporate media has completely fudged the most prescient issue arising out of Hersh’s revelation, which is the fact that the Joint Special Operations Command (mainly comprising of Delta Force) was not merely the brainchild or personal political assassination wing for Dick Cheney, but it has been in operation for decades, including inside the United States, has been involved in the murder of U.S. citizens, and is an integral part of Barack Obama’s expansion of the so-called war on terror.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/cheney-assassination-unit-still-active-under-obama-including-domestically.html